I've been experimenting with curved sections created from two offset ellipses. Mainly of interest to illustrators I've placed them on my website. http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~riscos/downloads/artworks/Ellipse_tools.zip The example shows a border created from one of these sections with a graduated fill applied, cloned and X-flipped to form a mirror image, cloned again and Y-flipped to form another mirror image, copied and finally blending applied. Regards Richard ------------------------------------------------------------ To change, suspend or cancel your subscription go to //www.freelists.org/list/artworks ------------------------------------------------------------